Now that the London Olympics are done and dusted, albeit with a display of hi-tech British kitsch in the finale, post-mortems are still crowding the pages of newspapers. This one though is a post-mortem of an alternative kind. A team, numbering just 23 athletes to India’s plus-size 83 which got six medals, did one better, finishing with a bounty of seven medals, including four golds.

Poster boy: Australia’s Matthew Mitcham competes in the men’s 10m platform semi-finals during the diving event at the London 2012 Olympic Games. pic/AFP